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Inside Burning Man: Radical Inclusion & Real Human Connection | Sarah Marshall

Jeff Hinderscheid Season 2 Episode 29

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Picture this: you’re in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, no money, no phones, just seventy thousand strangers and a community built on radical inclusion and self-reliance.

Sarah Marshall spent decades trying to compensate for being a trans woman in a world that was not ready for her. She joined the military, earned a degree in engineering, and climbed the corporate ladder as a director of operations who left bodies everywhere in pursuit of results. Then she went to Burning Man for the first time and encountered radical inclusion, a gift economy, and a community that did not care about the walls she had built to protect herself. Over the next twenty-three years, Sarah became a village mayor, learned to build leaders instead of casualties, and wrote a novel that took over twenty years to complete.

In this episode, we explore her 20+ year journey on the playa, the power of the gift economy, and what it really takes to build community in a disconnected world.

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